Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1887-07-29
FULL FARE.
A Joke on the Drummers But a
Poor One They Think it
is For Them.
The Interstate Commission has
Decided that the Commercial
Man Must Put up.
PUT UPOR SHUT Up.


Drummerz Must Pay the Same Raisroad
Fare "a Other People.
Washington Telegram: The inter-
state commerce commission has deliv.
cred its opinion In four of the cases re-
Gently brought before it. The cases
entitled Louis Harrison against the
Grand Trunk Railroad Company, and
Michigan Central Railroad Company
against the Grand Trunk Railroad
Company, were, by consent of the
parties, heard together. The charge
Is unjust discrimination. Harrison
complains that the road would not sell
him a ! 900 mile ticket at the price
paid by commercial travellers. and the
Michigan Central company complains
that the Grand Trunk company was
selling to commercial travellers at low
er rates than to the public generally.
The defendant admits the facts as
charged, but AYERS that nothing alleg.
ed Is in conflict with the laws. The
opinion reviews aud discusses at
length the various points set up by
the defendant, and concludes as fol-
lows: Common carriers may con.
iinue the Issuance Of mileage passeE-
ger tickets, the charge for which must
be reasonable and just, and free from
unjust discrimination or unreasonable
preference. Persons belonging to the
class known rs commercial travellers
are not privileged to ride over rail.
roads at lower rates than are paid by
other persons. Whatever reasonable
rates commercial travellers are made
to pay other travellers may be made 10
pay. To charge one more than the
other is unjust discrimination; and
this Is true whether the tickets issued d
are mileage tickets or in some ether
form. The refusal of the defendant,
the Chicago d Grand Trunk railway
company, to sell the complainant Lar.
rison thousaud-mile ticket for $50
price at which said company was sell
ing such tickets to commercial travel
ers, and the neglect to publish rates al
which defendant was offering to sci
mileage tickets, We're alikel In conflic
with "the act to regulate commerce.
Opinion by Commissioner Morrison
all concurring.
The case Of the ST. Louis wholesal,
grocers against the Missouri Pacifi
embodies complaint that while com
mutation tickets arel sold at the rate
which wonld amount to not NOR,
than SIS for | 900 miles, the / ,OOO.mil'
tickets upon which commercial trav
elers travel are not sold for less thar
s25. The commission is also asked Il
order and direct that discrimination
be made In favor of commercial tray
elers; in short, that thousand-mil
tickets be sold to them at lower rate
than 10 others. The commission doe
not regard the fact that commutatioI
tickets are put on sale at a given rat
to be one that entities the purchaser G
a mileage ticket to complain Of unju:
discrimination If charged highe
rate. The circumstances and coDd
tions, the opinion says. are not tb
same. The commission finds notbin
in the testimony submitted going :
show that the charge of s25 for a /, 900
mile ticket is unreasonable. In n
spect TO the order II Ia requested I
make in favor of commercial traveller
the opinion says: "The commission
would hardly be willing to make sue
an order ia any case, however urgen
, the circumstances might appear TO b'
But in respect to this matter We ar
7, agreed that the entire policy an
J spirit of the law are against II, an
that when mileage tickets, distir
guished from trip tickets, are isslet
they should be sold to all impartially.
Opinion by Commissioner Walker. a
! concurring.